This is a great website that gives the Biography of our 35th president John F. Kennedy from the JFK Presidential Library & Museum. The Biography includes pictures, outlines, and original documents from birth to death of John F. Kennedy. After reading JFK's biography this is a great lesson for students to follow up with. This lesson is appropriate for grades 4th and up. This lesson allows the students to research John Kennedy as a president and as a young boy; It also gives the students a chance to create their own biography. JFK Biography lesson plan.docx .
This is a great website (JFK Presidential Library & Museum) that gives the biography of John F. Kennedy's wife, Jacqueline Kennedy. This biography explains Mrs. Kennedy as a little girl up to and including thestruggles as being the first lady of the United States. This biography also comes with a lesson; this lesson allows the students to follow Mrs. Kennedy through her days as a camera girl to being the first lady. Jackie Kennedy's biography lesson plan.docx.
#3 John F. Kennedy greatly accelerated the space program
President Kennedy's Special Message to Congress on Urgent National Needs In this excerpt, President Kennedy discusses the need to make further advances in space. He asks Congress to provide funding for the development of appropriate lunar space craft, nuclear rockets, and communication and weather satellites.
Excerpt of a tape recording of a 73-minute White House meeting that took place on November 21, 1962 during which President Kennedy made clear his administration’s priority that the United States land on the moon before the Soviet Union. This is a clip from JFK's historic speech that sent us to the moon and Neil's famous 1st step. John F Kennedy's address at Rice University
In his speech, President Kennedy outlines the reasons for increased funding for the space program and his commitment to putting a man on the moon. Correspondence between JFK and LBJ on the space program
1961 correspondence between President Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson on the state of the nation’s space program. Date: April 20, 1961 Kennedy's Telegram: congratulations This is President Kennedy's telegram congratulating the Soviet Union on the first manned space flight, April 12, 1961.
Space Activity for grades 3-8
Using these two sources Complete the activity attached. On April 12, 1961 cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin from the Soviet Union orbited around the earth in 108 minutes. The same day President Kennedy wrote a telegram to Premier Nikita Khrushchev congratulating the Soviets on the first successful manned flight. Kennedy's Telegram: congratulations
B. A few days later President Kennedy wrote a memo on April 20,1961 to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was the chairman of the Space Council. Eight days later, Vice President Johnson responded to President Kennedy’s memo.Correspondence between JFK and LBJ on the space program
Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs This is an excerpt of President Kennedy’s Special Message to Congress on Urgent National Needs, May 25, 1961. In this section the President discusses the nation’s space program and establishes a national goal “before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.”
Letter to Kennedy and his responseRead the letter that Mary Lou Reitler wrote to President Kennedy asking him why the United States was spending so much money on the space program, as well as, the response she received from Myer Feldman (writing on behalf of President Kennedy). During President Kennedy's time in office he spent a lot of money and attention on the space program. Here is a lesson plan for high school students.
Federal Budget Simulation Lesson Plan In this lesson plan, high school students debate our nation's priorities by establishing their own "simulated" federal budgets. After analyzing the FY 2010 discretionary budget, students will be asked to design a FY 2011 budget with a group of their peers. Through the simulation, students will learn the importance of the budgeting process and that decisions concerning how our government spends its money form the basis of most national government policy
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#1 John F. Kennedy Biography
John F. Kennedy Biography
This is a great website that gives the Biography of our 35th president John F. Kennedy from the JFK Presidential Library & Museum. The Biography includes pictures, outlines, and original documents from birth to death of John F. Kennedy. After reading JFK's biography this is a great lesson for students to follow up with. This lesson is appropriate for grades 4th and up. This lesson allows the students to research John Kennedy as a president and as a young boy; It also gives the students a chance to create their own biography. JFK Biography lesson plan.docx .#2 Jacqueline B. Kennedy
Jacqueline B. Kennedy
This is a great website (JFK Presidential Library & Museum) that gives the biography of John F. Kennedy's wife, Jacqueline Kennedy. This biography explains Mrs. Kennedy as a little girl up to and including thestruggles as being the first lady of the United States. This biography also comes with a lesson; this lesson allows the students to follow Mrs. Kennedy through her days as a camera girl to being the first lady. Jackie Kennedy's biography lesson plan.docx.
#3 John F. Kennedy greatly accelerated the space program
President Kennedy's Special Message to Congress on Urgent National Needs
In this excerpt, President Kennedy discusses the need to make further advances in space. He asks Congress to provide funding for the development of appropriate lunar space craft, nuclear rockets, and communication and weather satellites.
JFK Makes Moon Landing Top NASA Priority
Excerpt of a tape recording of a 73-minute White House meeting that took place on November 21, 1962 during which President Kennedy made clear his administration’s priority that the United States land on the moon before the Soviet Union.
This is a clip from JFK's historic speech that sent us to the moon and Neil's famous 1st step.
John F Kennedy's address at Rice University
In his speech, President Kennedy outlines the reasons for increased funding for the space program and his commitment to putting a man on the moon.
1961 correspondence between President Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson on the state of the nation’s space program.
Date: April 20, 1961
This is President Kennedy's telegram congratulating the Soviet Union on the first manned space flight, April 12, 1961.
Space Activity for grades 3-8
Using these two sources Complete the activity attached.
On April 12, 1961 cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin from the Soviet Union orbited around the earth in 108 minutes. The same day President Kennedy wrote a telegram to Premier Nikita Khrushchev congratulating the Soviets on the first successful manned flight.
Kennedy's Telegram: congratulations
B. A few days later President Kennedy wrote a memo on April 20,1961 to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was the chairman of the Space Council. Eight days later, Vice President Johnson responded to President Kennedy’s memo.Correspondence between JFK and LBJ on the space program
Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs This is an excerpt of President Kennedy’s Special Message to Congress on Urgent National Needs, May 25, 1961. In this section the President discusses the nation’s space program and establishes a national goal “before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.”
During President Kennedy's time in office he spent a lot of money and attention on the space program. Here is a lesson plan for high school students.
Federal Budget Simulation Lesson Plan
In this lesson plan, high school students debate our nation's priorities by establishing their own "simulated" federal budgets. After analyzing the FY 2010 discretionary budget, students will be asked to design a FY 2011 budget with a group of their peers. Through the simulation, students will learn the importance of the budgeting process and that decisions concerning how our government spends its money form the basis of most national government policy